Cesar Chavez Avenue Lansing Michigan, 1994
Scope and Contents
The Chicano/Latino T-shirt and Textile collection consists draw upon many Midwest US related themes. Items included are a MSU ChiSPA team shirt for Las Comadres, Dia de la Mujer and other MSU Chicanx student and staff events; shirts from the campaigns of Elena Herrada for the Detroit City Charter Commission and Detroit School Board, the Tony Benavides Lansing Michigan mayoral campaign, and the imprisonment of Puerto Rican FALN member and political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera (President Obama commuted Lopez Rivera's sentence on January 17, 2017. Rivera lived in Chicago before capture and was held in an Indiana federal prison.). Other t-shirts commemorate United Farm Worker Union boycotts of Gallo Wine products and Cesar E. Chavez.
Dates
- Creation: 1994
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open and available for research in the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections' reading room.
Extent
From the Collection: 3 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The t-shirt was printed, sold and distributed to raise funds to support the naming of Cesar E. Chavez in Lansing Michigan.
Repository Details
Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository